A Karo Coffin in Northern Sumatra In part of Sumatra, Indonesia, ancestors are revered and bodies were often kept in coffins kept alongside the longhouses until a ritual burial could be performed. The dead are also disinterred for rituals.

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A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets , particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry , use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a ...

A Karo coffin in Bunuraja circa 1918, photo by Tassilo Adam. Bunuraja, Bunuraya, Bunu-raja is a village in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

The earliest evidence of wooden coffin remains, dated at 5000 BC, was found in the Tomb 4 at Beishouling, Shaanxi. Clear evidence of a rectangular wooden coffin was found in Tomb 152 in an early Banpo site. The Banpo coffin belongs to a four-year-old girl; it measures 1.4 m (4.6 ft) by 0.55 m (1.8 ft) and 3–9 cm thick.

1932 Sumatra Ancestral Coffin Karo Batak An interesting historic documentary photoprint - Reference/research/collectors piece perhaps.. Unrelated text to the rear.....(this item comes …

A coffin (also known as a casket) is a box used to keep dead bodies, either for burial or after cremation. The word comes ultimately from Greek kophinos, a basket. In English, the word was not used in a funeral sense until the 1500s. Any box used to bury the dead in is a coffin. The main distinction between a coffin and a casket is the shape.

A karo is usually that long vehicle where the coffin is placed in order to transport the dead and bring to the grave. There’s even a joke that when someone drives very slow, he/she acts like a tsuper ng karo (funeral car driver) since during interment, the funeral car is …

Sep 10, 2018 · Rav Huna, an important Babylonian amora, was brought to Eretz Yisrael for burial on “a bed” but was buried in a coffin. These and other sources teach us that burial in coffins was common. Burial in wooden and stone coffins is also confirmed by many archaeological finds.

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